characters being competent
A collection of works where the characters are actually competent, as they would realistically be in the circumstances that they are in, or with the experience that they have through their story.
This all started because I kept getting frustrated whenever characters are written into the damsel trope a bit too hard, when, within the story, it does not make sense for that character to be.
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Kallus is a Rebel now. He has no doubt he’s in the right place, finally. But… There’s an awful lot of hugging in the Rebel Alliance. Hugging, back slapping, casual touching… Nobody in the Empire ever touches each other like this.
Kallus isn’t a hugger. Actually, he doesn’t know if he’s a hugger, he’s never had a chance to find out. But Zeb—Zeb is a hugger.
This is something he’s going to have to think about…
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- Part 1 of Survival and Comfort
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Zeb, in the aftermath of that moon and all that happened there. How are you supposed to feel, after you've saved the man who helped murder your people?
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Kallus has been slowly intergrating into the crew when the Ghost is assigned to a normal supply run. The mission goes south, as it usually does, Zeb takes a hit, Kallus doesn't take it well, and the rest of the crew try to pick of the pieces. Another mission, another mess. Just another day on the Ghost.
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Plagg can't actually remember what it feels like to have a holder who admires rather fears him. It's happened before, he knows, because that's how it was in the beginning. That's how it's meant to be. But literal civilizations have sprouted, blossomed, and withered away in the time since Plagg last got to choose his own Black Cat.
Plagg didn't get to choose this newest holder, either, but it's clear they were made for each other. After all, Marinette Dupain-Cheng is a walking catastrophe.
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Soft Touch by seventh_time_lucky
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
14 Dec 2021
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Shouto knows that the appropriate thing to do now is to pull his head out of the cupboard, stand up, and explain to Bakugou that he’s looking for the first aid kit. He also knows that if he does that, Bakugou will most likely let go of his hand. And – he doesn’t want that.
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Todoroki gets hit with a quirk that makes him sick unless a particular person is touching him. And that particular person just happens to be Bakugou Katsuki.
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- Part 1 of Touch Sensitive
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Atsushi stares for a long moment, taking that in. “That’s it? I just have to die and I’ll be let go?”
“You’ll exit the loop. Sounds fairly simply but remember the time limit, your healing ability is going to be working against you here,” Ranpo corrects.
“I almost die all the time - “ He laughs, a weight in his chest lifting. “I’m going to get out of here!”
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Atsushi gets stuck in a time loop and severely underestimates just how dedicated his family is to keeping him alive
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In the sealed scroll he finds a Bingo Book – his own page marking him as an S-class nukenin with flee-on-sight orders.
“Ok. That is definitely different.”
In his head he blames Naruto – even if his number one unpredictable student had been nowhere near him on this mission. When things go this stupidly impossibly wrong it must somehow be the future Hokage’s fault.
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Master of Weaponry, and … Chopsticks? (Zhongchi 5+1 Things) by Rigel (DarklingFyre)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Aug 2022
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Childe has a secret. A great, big, terrible secret. (No not the Harbinger thing.) See, he actually knows how to use chopsticks (it comes with the whole ‘master of weaponry’ shtick.) But there is no way he is going to admit that to the handsome funeral consultant. Especially when feigning incompetency gets him such sweet rewards.
Or: 5 times Childe pretends to not know how to use chopsticks around Zhongli, and 1 time he forgets he's supposed to be pretending.
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There are things that Jefferson Davis simply does not understand.
He's starting to, though.
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zero hour, 9am by Likelightinglass
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
29 Mar 2026
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Grace sleeps, and dreams.
Rocky watches, and contemplates.
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- Part 3 of Platonic cuddling